forced into high society

China, Province J.

The World Youth Perfume Contest is held here. The competition venue is quite special, which is different from the gymnasium or open-air venue for general competitions. Because of the particularity of perfume, the competition is finally set in a venue that combines Chinese and Western styles.

The top of the venue is hollowed out, and a huge electronic screen is suspended.

The scene was full of excitement. China, as the host for the first time, naturally promoted its own incense culture as much as possible, from the "Xiangpu" of the Song Dynasty to the "Xiangcheng" of the Ming Dynasty, including sachets, incense burners, agarwood, etc. The interesting allusions of incense amazed foreign visitors.

Contestants from various countries are gradually arriving, including those from well-known countries such as Italy, Britain, the United States, France, and Switzerland.

Jiang Cheng walked in from a distance and saw Adrian talking with a Chinese volunteer with a smile on his face.

"Brother." He called out.

"Ginger." Adrian turned his head, his cuffs were slightly rolled up, revealing his well-trained arm muscles. His gaze fell behind the young Asian, and he was obviously stunned for a moment.

Jiang Cheng was a little embarrassed, heck, he said he didn't need to come with so many people.

He paused, and introduced with a little pride: "They are my relatives and friends."

Gu Xing dragged Jiang Cheng's suitcase, and made eye contact with Adrian.Yi Zhenxin and Gu Qujing stood beside him, while Qiao Wo and Gu Zhi fell at the back.

Jiang Cheng glanced at Gu Zhi, he could understand other people watching his game, but why is the other party here?

When he caught his sight, Gu Zhi broke down instantly: "I came here with Zhenxin, can't I?!"

Yi Zhenxin ruthlessly smashed someone's delusions: "He came to be a porter."

"Pfft." Jovo snickered.

Ha... Gu Zhi began to doubt his life, a group of people bullied him!

the other side.

Gu Xing shook hands with Adrian and said calmly, "Hello."

"Hello." Adrian smiled politely: "I saw your photo in his place."

Who this "he" refers to is self-evident in the hearts of the two men.

Gu Xing narrowed his eyes slightly.

Adrian smiled deeper.

The atmosphere between the two was not quite right. Seeing this, Jiang Cheng felt a little bad, so he hurriedly pulled Gu Xing's sleeve, and said to Adrian, "Brother, let's go to the dormitory first, see you in the game, goodbye!"

After speaking, he dragged the people away.

Adrian: ".."

A group of people came to the contestant's room. Gu Hujing and the others went to help Jiang Cheng with the application materials. Everyone didn't want to be a light bulb, so they suggested: "Let's go shopping around first, there are a few attractions we want to see, and I will come to you in the evening have a meal together."

So only Jiang Cheng and Gu Xing were left in the room.

"Stars?" He approached cautiously and pressed against his back.

"Your senior brother likes you." Gu Xing casually sat on the edge of the bed with his eyelashes drooping.

Jiang Cheng stared at him without blinking, and said "Oh", "I guessed it."

If I thought I was thinking too much before, then I guessed a little bit when Adrian invited him to various parties many times.

"So what?" He held Gu Xing's hand, and gave him a hard "chirp", "I like you!"

"You can't be so unconfident, young master?" He said deliberately.

Gu Xing sneered, sitting on the sofa, his lips were slightly pink in contrast to his white and glowing skin.

"Nonsense." He slowly raised his eyelids: "Of course I don't doubt my charm."

It's just annoyed that someone who dares to covet him.

A guy who doesn't know what's good or bad.

Like a Persian cat that has been robbed of its beloved toy.

Jiang Cheng thought silently, being so cute that his heart trembled.

"Don't think too much." His black eyes were dimly lit under the light, and he said softly: "The teacher promised me that if I won the top three in this competition, he would give me a two-month vacation, and I would use it to accompany you How are you?"

"Really?" Gu Xing slowly sat up straight, leaning forward towards Jiang Cheng, his two chest muscles squeezed together, and his beautiful wrist bones grabbed him.

Seeing a seductive shallow gully at close range, Jiang Cheng blinked his eyes very slowly, the tip of his nose was a little strange, he looked away in embarrassment, wondering if he did it on purpose.

at this time.

Jiang Cheng was caught off guard and threw his head back on the carpet.

Gu Xing sat on his waist, looked down at him lazily, and sprayed warm breath in his ears: "Why don't you answer me?"

"I...I have to compete tomorrow and read a book!" Jiang Cheng almost bit his tongue, blushing and talking nonsense.

Gu Xing laughed, this person has been abroad for a while, why is he even more shy.

"Go, study hard and get a good ranking." He leaned over and kissed the puppy's hair, his eyes were gentle.

Jiang Cheng stood up abruptly, turned his back to Gu Xing and took out his notes, but the parts of his ears exposed from his hair were very red.

The only sound in the room was the sound of him turning pages, and the soft sound of things being packed away.

The man tidied his clothes and arranged all kinds of perfume bottles neatly.Careful movements, as if upside down, that's how he was taken care of when he went to Karlovy Vary.

The competition was held on the second day, starting at [-]:[-] in the morning, a total of three rounds, the first round of test paper smell and the second round of skin fragrance test in the morning.At this time, the hall on the first floor was full of spectators, because the competition needs to be quiet.

Therefore, the contestants will participate in the competition on the second floor. The auditorium on the first floor cannot see the specific scene on the second floor, but can only see moving figures from a distance.

However, there is a huge broadcast electronic screen that allows them to see the appearance of the contestants.

A group of people looked for Jiang Cheng's figure.

"Found it!" Jovo shouted excitedly, and the people in the front seat turned their heads and quickly fell silent.

In a certain corner of the screen, a young boy seriously lowered his eyes and sniffed a piece of white test paper.

The first round is to smell the fragrance with test paper, to test the basic skills of the perfumers.Each perfumer will get [-] test strips. The more raw materials the perfumers smell, the more accurate the identification, the higher the score.

Several people stared nervously at the big screen.

Gu Zhi didn't bother to look at it at first, but when he looked up, he saw that Jiang Cheng was changing the test strips quickly, and the foreigners around were still smelling the fragrance slowly, so he couldn't help but frowned and shouted: "Everyone else is slow, what's the matter with him so fast, don't Carelessly eliminated!"

Gu Xing didn't speak, but focused his eyes on Jiang Cheng on the screen, and slowly curled his fingers by his side.

time up!

The timing of the first round of competition ended, and the judge assistants came up to collect the test strips. Some perfumers found that they hadn't finished smelling, and almost cried.

The independent review team of the World Fragrance Association judged the contestants, and the final result came out. Jiang Cheng found himself in the third place with a score of 96.3, while No.1 and No.2 scored 97 and 96.7 respectively.

He rolled his eyes happily and made a gesture to the camera.

Gu Xing, who received his expression of intention, smiled knowingly, and the corners of his lips curved slightly.

"Only the third?" Someone started to spoil the scenery again.

Yi Zhenxin frowned: "Shut up."

Gu Zhi pursed his lips: "I'm really happy qAq."

The theme of the second round of the competition is skin fragrance testing. Among the dozens of perfumes piled up on the table, the perfumer needs to choose the perfume that he thinks best fits the theme of "Sweet" and introduce it to the judges.Different from the first round of testing basic skills, this session is more about testing the knowledge of the perfumer and the richness of his knowledge of perfume.

sweet?

Jiang Cheng's first reaction was to eat, and then he looked up at the sky in embarrassment. Is it worthy of the traditional thinking of foodies?

This is also an idea, but this is definitely not what the jury wants to see - the important thing is not the quality of the perfume, the quality is important, but the key is to let the judges recognize and appreciate your fragrance culture concept.

let him think..

In the lobby on the first floor, after following the game for so long, the audience was a little tired and began to secretly play with their mobile phones or yawn, even Jovo and the others were no exception.

Yi Zhenxin and Gu Hujing chatted about which countries these contestants are from, what exotic customs are there in these countries, and if they have the opportunity to travel someday.

Jovo pulled Gu Zhi and started playing a small game for two players online. Gu Zhi died miserably, and was tortured by Jovo from time to time so that he screamed.

Only Gu Xing was still looking at the big screen intently, and Qiao Wo, who occasionally lost his attention from the game, muttered, it really is true love.

The black-haired, fair-skinned young man stared at his lover with his chin resting on his hands.Thinking about not stopping the other party from going abroad at the beginning, I felt a faint feeling of gratitude.

A beautiful bird cannot be kept in a cage. If he had stopped him back then, Jiang Cheng would not have been able to gain access to a more systematic knowledge of perfume.He couldn't bring them to him. He would like to thank Master Fu Minglan for making his lover so shining.

"come on."

My little perfumer.

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The contestants raced against time to choose the perfume they thought fit the theme, and all kinds of fragrances collided in the air for a while.Suddenly, Jiang Cheng's gaze fell on a bottle of perfume he had just picked up in his hand, and his heart skipped a beat.

The scent was special, straight to the nose, with a light fresh sweetness, a creamy sweetness, something that smelled like crystallized plums.. The word "different" flashed in his head.

In the judges' seat, looking at the busy young people, Ms. Sophia smiled: "Look at our little ones, it's really exciting, isn't it?"

"Well, it seems that many people don't have a clue yet." Carol snorted coldly, looking down with mean eyes.

"Khalil, don't be so strict." Sophia chuckled, "I see there are still a few good seedlings." After finishing speaking, her eyes noticed Jiang Cheng, "If I remember correctly, that young man Should be a disciple of Fominlan Valentino?"

As soon as the words fell, Swanson, who was watching, knew that something was going to go wrong. Carol couldn't understand Fuminglan very much. Welcome to start.In contrast, Khalil's works are completely reduced to foil tragedies.

Sure enough, Khalil stared at Jiang Cheng, very unhappy: "He is Valentino's disciple? Are you kidding me, an oriental—"

"Ahem," Sophia coughed twice, and stared at him warningly: "Khalil, I didn't know you were racist?"

"I don't, Sophia, don't talk nonsense. I just doubt whether he can understand the charm of perfume. Don't Valentino accept him as a student to study the oriental market." Khalil sneered.

Sophia was speechless: "You..."

"OK, OK——" Swanson tried to calm them down: "Why don't we wait for the contestants to come over later to see the result? With ten of us judges here, can't we tell their level?"

Khalil snorted coldly: "Okay! I'll wait." He wanted to see what this oriental man could do to make Valentino accept him as a student.

Jiang Cheng didn't know that the judges in the jury had caused controversy because of him. After concentrating on choosing the perfume, he walked out of the competition venue.

Perfumers came forward with their chosen perfumes. Adrian was No.1 in the first round, scoring 97 points.

When he came to the stage, he chatted happily with the judges, and the atmosphere was very pleasant.It can be seen that the other waiting players are under a lot of pressure.

It was Jiang Cheng's turn, already 27th place, which was not a good number, and the judges inevitably looked a little tired.

"Hi, judges, this is the perfume of my choice."

Sophia nodded, took the perfume he handed over first, closed her eyes and sniffed lightly, her spirits lifted instantly.

Vanillin, patchouli, vetiver, jasmine, this is...

"Amber83, a fragrance base invented by Dreyer Company in the early twentieth century. Vanillin, patchouli, vetiver, and jasmine are the main synthetic fragrances of this fragrance base. The perfume in my hand - the 30s fragrance Rochas’ Femme, the famous work of perfumer Lunitzka, has applied it.” Jiang Cheng held up the perfume in his hand, and introduced it seriously: “Femme is the pure symbol of perfume, such as the juicy peach aroma and the creamy sweetness. Smell, and at the same time, it has the wonderful meaning of girl and woman in French. If the theme of sweetness is mentioned, I don’t think there is anything more in line with it.”

Many judges nodded, and Sophia smiled lightly: "You speak very well, sweetheart, I think I have to give you a high score."

"I have a deep understanding of the history of perfume, and I usually do a lot of research."

Jiang Cheng answered a few books he had read, which made the expression on Sophia's face even more satisfied.

Jiang Cheng responded to several questions that the judges were interested in, and some of the judges asked tricky questions.

For example, Mr. Kalil actually asked him the ingredients of Femme, a classic perfume of the last century.You should know that in order to protect the interests of creators, the proportion of perfumes is generally not made public.

Fortunately, Jiang Cheng has a sensitive nose, so he answered this question after thinking for a while. By the way, he reminded Mr. Kalil that Femme is actually mainly an aldehyde-floral note, and has little to do with the chypre note he mentioned.

Khalil's face was a little ugly, but he didn't say anything.

Sophia suppressed a smile and cleared her throat: "Okay, do the other judges have any comments? If not, the next one will be next."

Jiang Cheng bowed slightly, turned and left, breathed a sigh of relief, exhale, nervous.

Walking towards the first floor under the guidance of the assistant, he thought to himself, I don't know if I can get a good score in this round, and Mr. Carroll didn't seem to like him very much just now.

Under the watchful eyes of Yi Zhenxin and others on the first floor, the large electronic screen of the venue finally fixed a ranking, and the name at the top was the one they were most familiar with——

"First? Jiang Cheng, you are the first in the second round!"

On the giant electronic screen, the word Jiang Cheng was affixed at the top, and the average score was the highest in the audience, a little higher than No.2.

"Chengzi, you can do it." Jovo tapped his shoulder excitedly.

He is the first?

Jiang Cheng was stunned, and after more than ten seconds, he couldn't help hugging the people around him, joy and excitement overflowed from his eyes: "I am the first, have you seen it?"

He couldn't help but say something, and then denied himself, "No, no, you can't be proud."

"Why not?" Gu Xing put his arms around him, with a satisfied look that almost picked him up and circled him.

The people next to him: ".." I feel like I have been fed another mouthful of dog food, how can I break it?

The two rounds of competition are over, and the final round is scheduled to start at [-]:[-] p.m. The contestants are all hiding in their rooms and getting ready. They have reached the final step, and no one wants to give up. Whether they can counterattack depends on this round.

The hustle and bustle was isolated from the outside of the room. Jiang Cheng sat quietly on a chair, picking out the ingredients of the perfume in his hand, looking at it, he suddenly felt a little thirsty, bowed his head, and found a glass of lemon that he didn't know when to soak. water.

".." He turned back quietly.

I saw the black-haired young man sitting quietly behind him, his face was like a precious gem, and he was very quiet, not making any noise to disturb him.

Seeing Jiang Cheng turn his head, Gu Xing looked at him with concern, "Hungry?"

Slightly dazed.

Jiang Cheng glanced at him, then looked down at the notebook in his hand, suddenly dropped the note and said, "I won't read it."

He rushed over, buried his whole body in Gu Xing's plump chest muscles, and rubbed happily.

"I want to kiss—"

"Didn't you say you want to read the book? Why don't you read it?" Gu Xing endured the numbness in his chest, and gently stroked his hair with his hands.

"The book has long been written in my mind, and I will never forget it. I just want to take a break, can't I." Jiang Cheng looked at the other party with clear black eyes, and raised his head to kiss him.

Gu Xing smiled.

He stretched out his arms to embrace him, his eyes were shining brightly in the dimness, as if the most beautiful stars in the world were condensed in them.

The air was silent for a moment.

"Xing Xing." Jiang Cheng said suddenly, absent-mindedly, "Are you hiding something from me?"

Gu Xing was startled, subconsciously glanced at him, and raised his eyebrows: "Why do you ask like that?"

"It's nothing." Jiang Cheng held his mouth and said, his eyes hesitated to speak.

Gu Xing saw the change in his expression, and a faint light flashed in his eyes.

He raised the corner of his mouth and said in a magnetic voice: "Don't think too much, prepare for the game well, huh?"

"After the game, we can spend the whole day in bed together, okay?"

The author says:

Yes, starting to doubt provoke qvq;

Tomorrow, Sanyuan will go out to do errands, and it may be updated on Sunday-do you want to see the finale at once?